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Hey Brian, Do you know what the history is around the different numbers on the scopes, where there certain numbers used on particular types of blaster etc. Like with the power cylinders ( Leia's escort)? Cheers Bryn

Nice, I've been waiting for this part.. excellent detail and walk through! P.S Thanks for your kind words about my efforts with Chris's power cylinders! The truth is that owe everything to all the good stuff that has been done before me... Also I have been really getting to the whole painting bit, I remember painting model WWII aircraft when I was a boy... It's brings back memories... Sent from my SM-T705Y using Tapatalk

Great stuff Chris, thanks! Sent from my D5833 using Tapatalk

Nice work Chris, very tempting... P.S. Perhaps consider making A,B,D etc variations? P.S.S and, hollow out a spot under the caps from the bottom to glue a magnet into? Maybe scratch that idea...

Hey Carl, Just looking through your build and I am wondering what paint did you use for the base coat and final black coat for the Mag? Was the silver the same for the rest of the blaster? Cheers Bryn

Hi Tino, Cheers mate . Yes pretty much multiple (2+) layers of paint and light sanding with 800 grit paper and hit it with my buffing block to help smooth it out and another coat of paint.. I also started off with a coat of Mr.Surfacer 1000, to fill it in a bit.. For the resistors I pretty much followed the same process you did, bits of plastic from a model kit cut to length and bits of wires stuck in the ends.. Q. How did you shrink the red wire insulation to such a nice size. A. I just squashed them in and added a bit if glue and more paint. P.S. you can see some other pic's earlier in this build thread.. Cheers

Thanks Tino! It was a bit nerve racking working on the hollowing out of the housing ..

Hi Again, I got all inspired after reading T-Jays latest post on power cylinders, so I decided to finish off mine.. So after a I bit more sanding and a few more coats of paint and here is the outcome.. So good news, Chris’s (the maninthesuitcase) 3D parts can come up really nicely.. Cheers for now..

Hi again, a quick update of how I put rare earth magnets in! I used 12 mm magnets 2 in the magazine and 3 three in the housing. For the magazine I drilled a hole in the base and used some Z-poxy (5 min) and for the housing I dremeled out a space from the barrel side and again glued in with Z-poxy (5 min).. I still need to sand the magazine down before painting but that’s it. 5 magnets in total seem to hold fine! Cheers All.

Great stuff, Tino! I got one of Chris's 3d print too and was happy with the way it came out.. I do like how you cut the capacitors down, I left mine as is and it was quite tricky to put the resistors and wires in.. I really like the shots of how you have shown how the resistors and wires go together.. nice Cheers

Update # - Magazine housing and magazine. Okay it’s been a while, I’ve been angst-ing about this bit, partly because I live in a 3 bed unit and don’t have any space and there is a lot of resin to dremel out and also because I just wasn’t sure how to approach this. Anyway I thought stuff it, I will make the magazine fit as it is. I soon realised that I really need to cut the magazine down a bit. The walls were just getting to thin for my liking - like T-Jay said they need to be very thin. Anyways here are some pics with what I ended up with.. P.S. Still to-do - I plan to put in some magnets to keep the magazine in. Cheers all..

So i've ordered a few bits and pieces for my next build.. Will report back when I get them.. Cheers Bryn

yep, those mic tips do look really nice..

Hey there, I came across this site today, some of the castings look really good, but a bit expensive.. Any one used some of these bits in a build? http://www.stormtrooperblaster.com/ Cheers

wow.. just wow...

Thanks Tino, I will have a think about these points... Cheers Bryn

More updates – Flash and ejector port guards and some other stuff Hi again, I have a few minor updates today. I worked on the Flash and ejector port guards, I was considering some of Chris’s done on shapeways but the shipping was too high for the one print. So I decided to get the file out and shape the resin ones that came with the kit. Once shaped I drilled holed in the barrel and guards put in a pin I mad out of a safety pin and super glued them in. The rest are a few pic’s of the gluing of the end cap clip (bracket) and the rear sight. I cut a bit of a recess into the barrel for the end cap clip (bracket) I cleaned up a bit and put in some green stuff. Okay that’s it for now folks..

Thanks T-Jay, I must say that there is are lots of really good builds in all of the threads, I only started looking at the ESB E-11 builds the other day.. There are some pretty high standards all around, to work towards! I have a few questions for the brains trust: I am thinking about gluing the grip on before painting, is there a best approach here? Should I wait, paint the grip and the glue it on..? Re the magazine, I have one from Gazmosis. What's the general feeling with taking most of the resin out of the housing versus cutting and sanding the magazine back? Cheers all and thanks is advance..

that was a great save Aaron ... Glad this is working out..

I hope you find a good supplier for the screws Brian. I'm still looking for a replacement for one of the three eyepiece mounting screws that is missing from my real M38.. I had to settle for a 8 BA 1/4" steel cheese head, they weren't stainless and have gone rusty....

Thanks Brian, To be honest I sort of fluked it with final finish and using the buffing block, i only used the buffing block when the sandpaper was too hash. I then saw how the scope was coming out and thought.. keep going!

• Update Painted Scope. Okay here are the final shots of the finished (bar a bit of white crayon in the markings at the end) scope. First a few shots of the scope before the final black coats, here I used rustoleum antique bronze. So here are the pic’s after painting with most of the weathering done, now I painted the scope with a Dulux Satin Black enamel. Outside shot (sorry for the crap pics, not very good at lighting etc..) Theses are the best shots. Bad lighting again.. looks washed out.. I weathered it with 600 and 800 grit sandpaper and polished it up with a Seacret Buffing block I stole from my wife. The look came out quite close to the real scope that I have, I picked the resin one up a couple of times a wondered why it was so light. One last thing, when I was weathering I rubbed through the black and then Bronze on my first attempts, this was on a couple of raised areas – got the sharpie out to hide the resin, not sure why perhaps I needed a few more coats of bronze. Cheers for now.

He's no jedi... lol.. Sent from my SM-T705Y using Tapatalk

Really nice build Carl.. Love the work around the trigger and grip!

Update – Hengstler Counter Well the Hengstler is completed! My first fully painted piece. One thing I have learned during the painting process is that I am a very impatient painter, I created a couple of dribbles that needed to be sanded back and resprayed.. Here are some shots, on its own and next to one of Bluesnaggletooths replicas.. P.S. mine is the one on the right in the doubles shots.. Next is the scope.. here is a teaser pic.